Well Read Column by Robert Weibezahl

In 1962, an unassuming 55-year-old nature writer rocked the world. With the publication of Silent Spring—first in the New Yorker and a few months later in book form—Rachel Carson exposed the dangers of DDT to the general public, hastening a great curtailment in the use of the “miracle” pesticide, and proving a major impetus for what came to be called the environmental...